Just bought a PS3, First impressions from a high end pc gamer

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I agree that FPS games are better on the PC, and I agree that RTS games are better on the PC.


That said, Its not down to anything other than the controller. Mouse and Keyboard.

If this mouse and keyboard on the PS3 thing happens, and its done right. Excellent!

Racing Games, 3rd person Horror/Adventure games, Flight shooters/Sims, RPGs. These all work better on a console for me.

but only down to the controller, once again.
 
wyrdo said:
Then please stop passing off your opinions as fact and having a bad attitude when people disagree with you.

Why are you so adamant on defending the PC as the be all and end all of gaming, especially in the consoles forum?
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Why are people adament of defending the 360 so much or other consoles? Everyone here seems insecure of their purchases I think and any disagreements bring the fanboys out. Never see this happen in the PC games section, happens a lot in the graphics section between ATI/NVidia owners though.

I'm not defending pc, I'm stating my opinion, knowing very well people here don't agree with me.

The best you can take from it is that I've formed my opinion by actually buying some consoles instead of fanboyism.

sid

edit/ while the above may seem true of me as well, i actually don't care so you'd be wrong.
 
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wannabedamned said:
I agree that FPS games are better on the PC, and I agree that RTS games are better on the PC.


That said, Its not down to anything other than the controller. Mouse and Keyboard.

If this mouse and keyboard on the PS3 thing happens, and its done right. Excellent!

Racing Games, 3rd person Horror/Adventure games, Flight shooters/Sims, RPGs. These all work better on a console for me.

but only down to the controller, once again.
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Racings sims would need wheels and flight games would need a flight stick both of which would work just as well on a pc. you are right about the rest.

sid
 
McManicMan said:
i formed my opinion by selling my PS3, its just not great at the moment but can see it becoming better as it becomes cheaper
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Fair enough, although its a good package already imho. It will obviously drop in price but I'm not playing that game lol.

sid
 
sid said:
Its now come down to the price point doesn't it?? where the 360 is the one to go for if you can't afford a high end pc or am I missing something else?
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More whether people think it's worth the cash. So far my favourite 360 games haven't appeared on the pc. The ones i'm most looking forward to aren't either. Infact, in recent years the pc has had a pretty awful lineup of games - which is the sole reason that for the first time in ages i'm not upgrading my pc for gaming.

It also costs a fair amount to get a gaming rig on par with a 360, let alone superior. My brothers C2D with 1950 for example is roughly as powerful. He can run Bioshock at a higher res with better details, but the framerate suffers. By the time he's reduced things to compensate it looks nigh on identical to the 360 version - a 700 quid pc performing no better in games than a console that can be had for just over 200. You need to be in the £800-1000+ range to get something better (which i'd gladly spend if the games were there).

Then there's the sitting back and chilling out on the sofa and big scren gaming. My pc is in another room and it's not feasable. Experience also tells me that it's never the hassle free gaming that consoles provide even when it is. I like to pick up my bad, push the on button, and then be in Xbox Live. Friends playing, joining games, everyone on comms, no hassle. It was never like that when I had my pc connected to the tele.

Xbox Live would be cheap at double the price, it's awesome.
 
Warbie said:
More whether people think it's worth the cash. So far my favourite 360 games haven't appeared on the pc. The ones i'm most looking forward to aren't either. Infact, in recent years the pc has had a pretty awful lineup of games - which is the sole reason that for the first time in ages i'm not upgrading my pc for gaming.

It also costs a fair amount to get a gaming rig on par with a 360, let alone superior. My brothers C2D with 1950 for example is roughly as powerful. He can run Bioshock at a higher res with better details, but the framerate suffers. By the time he's reduced things to compensate it looks nigh on identical to the 360 version - a 700 quid pc performing no better in games than a console that can be had for just over 200. You need to be in the £800-1000+ range to get something better (which i'd gladly spend if the games were there).

Then there's the sitting back and chilling out on the sofa and big scren gaming. My pc is in another room and it's not feasable. Experience also tells me that it's never the hassle free gaming that consoles provide even when it is. I like to pick up my bad, push the on button, and then be in Xbox Live. Friends playing, joining games, everyone on comms, no hassle. It was never like that when I had my pc connected to the tele.

Xbox Live would be cheap at double the price, it's awesome.
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I'm not sure about the details on your brothers pc but I gamed Bioshock on a C2D 3ghz , 2gb ram, x1950pro at 1280 on max settings and it was easily smooth enough.

Also half the fun of pc games is getting them work, tweaking, etc. Since this is a overclocking forum, I'd say thats the norm here i'd have though.

Don't forget that 720p is lower res as well.

sid
 
sid said:
Also half the fun of pc games is getting them work, tweaking, etc.
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The novelty of that wore off for me years and years ago! Does anyone really enjoy this? I like to put a game in and know it's running and looking as good as it possibly can with no worry of whether it'll work or updating drivers.

With Bioshock he ended up having to drop the res to 1280, which really doesn't look any better than 720p. The details were a tiny bit higher, but the rame rate a little more jumpy. For all intense and purposes the experience was the same (minus analogue movement - which is great in Bioshock).
 
sid said:
C'mon mate there is little bit of truth in what I said, given that most people have argued many 360 games will be on pc anyways and vice versa.

Also to point out, you can use 360 controller on pc. so you can have controller (which i think is naff for some types of games anyways) on the pc with better graphics for the most part and free online play added in.

You can hook the pc (which can be easily as quiet as the 360, given that the 360 is loud or so i've heard) to the HDTV in the living room so you can sit on the sofa, take your performance enhancing gaming plasmids like beer and chill.

As far as the bugs in pc games goes, this is OC forum so I'm going to assume people know how to troubleshoot.

Its now come down to the price point doesn't it?? where the 360 is the one to go for if you can't afford a high end pc or am I missing something else? (there a few exclusive titles to the 360, but thats true of any platform and opinions will vary depending on what you like)

sid

edit/ a semi decent gaming pc isn't that much more expensive that a 360/PS3 anyways, you pay so much more the extras and games that they cost the same. This a while back people had posted how much they spent on next gen consoles and it was a fair whack to say the least.
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i wasnt actually defending any console or PC, not fussed which everyone thinks is the best for what tbh lol was just replying to your bit about your opinion etc should probs have just quoted that bit instead of your whole post really
 
sid said:
I'm not sure about the details on your brothers pc but I gamed Bioshock on a C2D 3ghz , 2gb ram, x1950pro at 1280 on max settings and it was easily smooth enough.

Also half the fun of pc games is getting them work, tweaking, etc. Since this is a overclocking forum, I'd say thats the norm here i'd have though.

Don't forget that 720p is lower res as well.

sid
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I would n't say trying to get the activation rubbish to work with the PC version of bioshock was exactly fun.

I know, your bound to say "well I never had any problems with it!" but just look at the bioshock forums and see the number of people who did.
 
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KNiVES said:
He likes his PC, we like our consoles, can we give it a rest now guys ?
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I like consoles too, I do feel they lack in many deparments in the gaming section though.

So just to get my fanboyisms straight here for those late to the show lol

PC beat consoles for FPS/RTS gaming (thats pretty much what i'd play)
PS3 is better all round console package than the 360 and will last longer i feel. I was annoyed in the way MS scrapped the xbox1
PS3 costs same as 360 elite when you buy some some games, extra controller, wireless and online (not to discount the HDDVD drive)
360 has more games (arguably better)
many 360 games overlap with pc ( I feel the pc versions are better, not to mention cheaper as I have powerful pc anyways)
I'm not even gonna start on the Wii lol

Right gonna test dirt and F1 on the PS3 now,

brb
 
JBeck said:
Aye, i was just sticking to RRP for arguments sake.
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Yeah I get what you mean but it was a pre-emptive strike, as PC builders talking about cheap gaming PCs always build them out of components found by scouring the web for the cheapest prices and second hand parts :)

Just trying to avoid the £300 360 vs £450 gaming PC arguements.
 
Dirt and F1 are both prety good

Dirt physics are a lot different compared to pc version so it handles different.

Are there any games to that use the sixaxis controllers properly yet?

sid
 
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